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Published: 2014-09-04 01:59:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 669; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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More concept art for the comic, just playing around with shapes. Kind of a Flash Gordon retro type design. I've been studying technical drafting. Scott Robertson's book is awesome if you want to get better at that kind of thing.
Micron pens in a moleskine sketchbook.
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The older work of Tony O'Donnell shows a lot of space adventure stuff - galactic cruisers and such.
You say you've been studying technical drafting, but this, while it's tight, looks eye-balled, not constructed mechanically.
Tips:
1) To better reveal the true shapes of the subject, break the silhouette where one form hides another. Here, for example, the shape of the huge delta wing conceals the body cylinder, which could be revealed by turning the point of view so that the nose of the cylinder passes the wing's outline. (Yes, the cylindar is fully revealed in depth view, but silhouette communicates this information immediately.)
2) If you don't want to use a mechanical construction from the ground up, but simply want to tighten up a freehand drawing with proper perspective, you can put box it. A) do the free hand. B) draw a box around it. C) put the box in proper perspective using an horizon line, vanishing points and perspective lines. D) if necessary, subdivide the subject with more boxes. E) align the parts of your blocked out subject with the sides of the box, then round out the surfaces.
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I've been studying technical drafting... but I ain't doing it.
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LOL. 
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Ha! That would be pretty ironic
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But there is no air in space? Is this a spaceship for atmosphere flight or something?
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Yeah it's designed to fly in atmospheres as well as space, that's why it has wings with ailerons which are pretty pointless in space.
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You really know your business.
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thanks! I've had a lot of time to think out how all the details work in my world
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I've been working on the story for like four years? There are 20 something chapters written and I've got the rest of the story arc in my head for when i have time to do some writing again. Should end up being 1200 to 1500 pages.
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Well that is a lot of work.
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thanks! same to you, you've got a very diverse ship portfolio. really like the low-tech winnebago in space stuff, very fun.
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an other grumpy style vehicle! I really love your work, it's so original! How do you make this shadows??
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Thanks! I mainly do hatching with a tiny amount of cross-hatching. I drop a couple pencil lines to keep me on track, the straight lines are pretty easy, the curved ones have to be corrected constantly or you end up with a circle
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Interesting! 
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You did a really good graphic job on this one! Like it.
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thanks! yeah it's a good read
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Cool. Which book are you referring too? "How to draw?"
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that's the one, his got a lot of great how tos and stuff on his youtube channel too. the book's awesome though, goes from the very basics all the way to really advanced concept stuff, definitely worth checking out.
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Will do, thanks for the tip.
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Looks great! I always love your ship designs and style you draw them in!
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